Born Primitive

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Wilson Pruitt
The History of Methodism: Volume 1: 1483-1703
The Methodist movement did not spring fully formed from the mind of John Wesley. It emerged from two centuries of religious upheaval, theological debate, and spiritual longing that stretched from Wittenberg to Westminster, from Geneva to Georgia. In this first volume of The History of Methodism , p...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Essay on the Origin of Languages
Among Rousseau’s more unusual legacies is his inquiry into how human language first arose, a question he explored in the posthumously published Essay on the Origin of Languages . In this dense yet fascinating essay, Rousseau delves into the primitive beginnings of speech and song, proposing that ...
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Ruth Painter Randall
Lincoln's Sons
"This book attempts to recover ... the personalities and lives of the sons of Abraham and Mary Lincoln. It is the story of four boys, [Robert, Edward, William and Thomas called Tad] born into a typical American family in the eighteen forties and fifties and their growing up, first in a primitive lit...
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Vincent Honoré
Ana Mendieta: En búsqueda del origen
Devoted to Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), this monograph appears with an exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, which brings together around 100 works from over fifteen years of production (1968–1985). The exhibition explores how the artist never ce...
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Paul Johnson
Eisenhower: A Life
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson’s lively, succinct profile of Dwight D. Eisenhower explores his life and enduring legacy In the rousing style he’s famous for, Paul Johnson offers a fascinating biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, with particular focus on his years as a five-star general and his...
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Schalom Ben-Chorin
Brother Jesus: The Nazarene through Jewish Eyes (Studies in the Legal History of the South)
No matter what we would make of Jesus, says Schalom Ben-Chorin, he was first a Jewish man in a Jewish land. Brother Jesus leads us through the twists and turns of history to reveal the figure who extends a "brotherly hand" to the author as a fellow Jew. Ben-Chorin's reach is astounding as he moves ...
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Courtney Acampora
Discovery: Roar with the Dinosaurs! (39-Button Sound Books)
Press the buttons to hear the dinosaurs roar!  The prehistoric world of dinosaurs comes to life in Discovery: Roar with the Dinosaurs ! This book features 39 push-button sounds. While reading the text, children can note the icons in the text and then press the corresponding sound button to bring...
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Joseph M. Marshall
Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance
From best-selling Native American writer Joseph M. Marshall III comes an inspirational guide deeply rooted in Lakota spirituality.   When a young man’s father dies, he turns to his sagacious grandfather for comfort. Together they sit underneath the family’s cottonwood tree, and the grandfath...
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Ha Jin
A Free Life: A Novel
From Ha Jin, the widely-acclaimed, award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash , comes a novel that takes his fiction to a new setting: 1990s America. We follow the Wu family--father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao--as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tia...
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Alastair Mayer
The Chara Talisman (Archeological Adventure in T-Space)
Archeologists in Spaaaace!!! Terraformed planets. Ancient, primitive cultures. And a old stone talisman with surprisingly high-tech innards.Is the talisman a star map? Does it, as the ruthless Velkaryans think, point to a cache of alien weapons? Homeworld Security thinks it might, and want to send t...
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William Golding
Lord of the Flies: The Graphic Novel (A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
For the 70th anniversary of William Golding’s classic, the first graphic novel adaptation of Lord of the Flies The original tale of stranded youth devolving into disorder that inspired Yellowjackets and The Hunger Games , now a Penguin Classics Hardcover The well-known plot: A plane cras...
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Victoria Morrow
The Eagle and the Dove
An avenging angel bent on justice, Jesse McCallum shows no mercy. When he catches up with the scum who’d murdered his father, he makes short work of them, but their stunningly beautiful captive is another matter… Raised in the lap of luxury in Boston, Katherine Kelly Dory had begged to accompany...
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Antanas Sutkus
Antanas Sutkus: Planet Lithuania
Humanist photographs documenting life in Lithuania during its occupation by the Soviet Union Antanas Sutkus (born 1939) ranks among Europe's great humanist photographers. Although he lived and worked in occupied Lithuania on the periphery of the Soviet Empire, he profoundly influenced Soviet photogr...
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Tamim Ansary
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” ( San Francisco Chronicle )                 We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely diff...
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Esther Greenfield
Tough Men in Hard Places: A Photographic Collection
The mines in southwestern Colorado were in trouble and needed cheap, reliable electric power to keep running. This is the story of innovative solutions to solve the problem using alternating current electricity and the incredible effort, tenacity, and toughness of the men who overcame formidable obs...
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D M Murdock
Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Connection
Destined to be a classic enjoyed by both the professional scholar and the lay person, this comparative religion book contains a startling perspective of the extraordinary history of the Egyptian religion and its profound influence upon the later Christian faith. Christ in Egypt: The Horus-Jesus Con...
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Rudyard Kipling
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
[Read by Fred Williams] This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when he was working as a journalist in India. Wry comedies of British officialdom alternate with glimpses into the harsh lives of the common soldiers and the Indian poor, re...
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Brian W. Aldiss
Non-Stop
MP3 CD Format A "brilliant . . . classic of the field" generation ship adventure from the Golden Age of Science Fiction by the author of the Helliconia Trilogy ( Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ). Non-Stop is Grand Master of Science Fiction and Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Brian W. Aldi...
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C. Northcote Parkinson
The Evolution of Political Thought (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Evolution of Political Thought N the Introduction to a recent work on social anthropology, already mentioned in the Preface,1 the editors state that 'we do not consider that the origins of primitive institutions can be dis covered and, therefore, we do not think it worth while seek...
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Nadine Gordimer
July's People
“So flawlessly written that every one of its events seems chillingly, ominously possible.” —Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review A startling, imaginative novel from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A violent war for equality has come to the white suburbs, driving out the...
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